Red Dragon

She was English (она была англичанкой) or rather Scotch (или, скорее, шотландкой) a big red-haired woman (крупная рыжеволосая женщина). What was her name (как ее звали)? Miss Freebody (мисс Фрибоди). Young or old (/она была/ молодая или старая)? She seemed frightfully old to me (мне она казалась ужасно старой; fright испуг; frightfully ужасно, страшно; эмоц. усил. ужасно, очень). I suppose she couldnt have been more than forty (полагаю, ей не могло быть больше сорока лет). Susanne, of course, used to look after my clothes (Сюзанна, конечно, обычно следила за моей одеждой; used + to do smth. иметь в прошлом обыкновение делать что-либо) and maid me (и прислуживала мне; maid служанка, горничная, прислуга). superintend [,s(j)u:p(@)rIn'tend] governess ['gVv@nIs] secretary ['sekr@t(@)rI] frightfully ['fraItf(@)lI] clothes [kl@U(D)z] Helena pondered deeply. Then she said: No I am sure there is no one. You yourself you were a young girl at the time did you have no one to superintend your studies or to look after you? Oh! yes, I had a dragon a sort of governess to me and secretary to Sonia combined ...»